traveller
1yr ago
But i would support undoing things done by
whooops!
It was supposed to be "But i would support undoing things done by(...)"
traveller
1yr ago
Polands economical miracle
this sounds a bit funny for Pole given that we are word-class at complaining and doomposting :)
traveller
1yr ago
And I suspect that the best thing that homolobby can do for itself in Ukraine is to play on repeat Putin complaining about homolobby and satanist nazi jewish gay Ukrainians.
traveller
1yr ago
Citadel by marketing material doesn’t take those risks. All factor neutral.
Many funds that failed in catastrophic ways made similar claims.
See say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management - to say nothing about repeated outright scams claiming the same
By "associated with murderers" I meant "associated with Putin and modern Russia as she was also a leader of Russia"
For quite clear reasons Ukrainians are disliking anything Russia-adjacent more and more as Russia continues to bomb them and murder their friends/family members.
Former leader of Russia is clearly Russian-adjacent.
Was the Russian government supposed
Russian government is supposed to stop their invasion of Ukraine, give back invaded areas and stop murdering people and vandalising Ukraine and kidnapping people. For start.
traveller
1yr ago
Ukraine has also some resources, including not yet exploited gas fields.
traveller
1yr ago
Poland constructed border wall and illegally pushed back migrants.
Unlike with almost all other things EU was not really complaining (unless it is proceeding and someone plans to dump also this on Poland/PiS?).
traveller
1yr ago
Yes, any city dedicating a statue to its founder and leaving it to stand is a completely self-evident course of events. There's no need to back that up.
People disliking people murdering them is very natural. Disliking things associated with murderers is also generally obvious.
completely self-evident course of events. There's no need to back that up.
As demonstrated by Odessa residents it is not, where it was removed with broad local support.
traveller
1yr ago
trivial to cure COVID since day 1
I am going to file it with "cancer is trivially treatable, evil medical companies are suppressing news about herbal remedies"
traveller
1yr ago
Russia has reasons to perceive expansion as aggression
I reject this part.
Though it would be accurate to treat it as a threat on Russian imperialism and pre-empting USSR 2.0. That is exactly why Poland and other joined NATO and Ukraine wanted to join.
Russia is not entitled to having an imperial sphere of influence.
traveller
1yr ago
What was the window of opportunity for Ukraine to run away, in your view?
Directly after fall of communism and some time later. Plenty of stuff was stolen during that time in Poland but Ukraine went far further and economical growth was anaemic later.
The made some steps since 2014 but it was too late to avoid Russian invasion and may be also too late to avoid conquest by Russia.
traveller
1yr ago
No idea how far Crimea should be rolled back but accepting Russian invasion is one of options.
entirely owe their existence to Hitler's legacy
That is blatantly false, for multiple reasons. Dropping "entirely" would help a bit but still would be untrue.
And I am not calling for rolling back anything communist adjacent - I would not support undoing electrification of many rural areas of Poland on basis "it happened under communism". And I am not going to kill myself because I was born during communist rule. Or deconstruct motorways where construction started under Hitler.
But i would support undoing things done by Third Reich and USSR regimes that were unwanted.
Do you still hold their independence to be legitimate?
Yes.
You also know that Poland signed a nonaggression pact with the Third Reich, and took part in the partition of Czechoslovakia, don't you?
Yes. BTW, Trans-Olza is nowadays in Czechia.
traveller
1yr ago
If you have a suggestion that isn't "ban certain topics/arguments," let's hear it.
Isolate topic in some containment thread? (subvariant of topic ban)
traveller
1yr ago
How hard is it to simply shoot the drug dealers?
Easy. Without shooting whoever-is-disliked-by-local-police? Hard.
traveller
1yr ago
This also presents a problem because "the case" for the Holocaust entirely relies on witness testimony
This is a blatant lie, dear SS. Unless you claim that for example demographic statistics before (or after) war were falsified and demographics of Polish Jews were falsified before war and so on. To say nothing about Gypsies demographics that somehow for some reason cratered during WW II.
traveller
1yr ago
I don't think any Baltic countries ran referendums of elections in 1945.
Well, that is a good way to make impossible to provide evidence that "Baltic referenda in '45 on joining the USSR were rigged" :)
And for 1940 ones I will just requote:
was the only party allowed to run
Seriously, anyone that is hearing about USSR-run elections and is not wondering "how they falsified them" is poorly informed.
Especially annexation "referenda" in just conquered areas, the same goes for what Russia run recently in occupied Ukraine.
traveller
1yr ago
russia would make peace.
Yeah, and sign peace promising respecting remaining part of Ukraine. Maybe it should be signed in Budapest and called Budapest Memorandum II ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum )
traveller
1yr ago
Mary Mallon would have been entirely justified to kill her captors and escape for by the point they imprisoned her in perpetuity they broke the social contract and returned her and themselves to the state of Nature.
I was unfamiliar with that but assuming that following is accurate I do not consider it as straightforward. And if you go "returned her and themselves to the state of Nature" then it anyway justifies using raw power to overpower everyone else anyway - and I do not think that it is in any way better.
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of up to 50. She was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella typhi.[1][2] She persisted in working as a cook and thereby exposed others to the disease. Because of that, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, eventually for the final two decades of her life. Mallon died after a total of nearly 30 years in isolation.[3][4]
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She used fake surnames like Breshof or Brown, and took jobs as a cook against the explicit instructions of health authorities. No agencies that hired servants for upscale families would offer her employment, so for the next five years, she moved to the mass sector. She worked in a number of kitchens in restaurants, hotels, and spa centers. Almost everywhere she worked, there were outbreaks of typhoid.[35] However, she changed jobs frequently, and Soper was unable to find her.[13]
In 1915, Mallon started working at Sloane Hospital for Women in New York City. Soon 25 people were infected, and two died. The head obstetrician, Dr. Edward B. Cragin, called Soper and asked him to help in the investigation. Soper identified Mallon from the servants' verbal descriptions and also by her handwriting.
traveller
1yr ago
We shouldn’t just blindly accept the government narrative about war, in fact the default is better off being negative.
Europeans should be more scepticals but at least only small minority is failing for much lower quality Russian claims. So it is not a complete failure at least.
traveller
1yr ago
If I get infected, I'm getting a few particles as part of a spray.
no, cells in your body are hijacked to produce endless copies of virus
if you are infected it is not going to be "few particles"
No, because slapping is a poor way to persuade people.
Also, if that would happen then thing went horrifying wrong before and I prefer actions taking far earlier.
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